Posts Tagged ‘cyber attack’
Las Vegas Under Attack… Still
Casino titan Caesars Entertainment is the latest Las Vegas institution hit by a cyberattack, joining rival MGM Resorts International. One critical difference though: Caesar’s said that its gambling operations were not disrupted. The company told the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that a data breach on September 7 may have exposed the driver’s license…
Read MoreRecent Cyber Incidents reported in the past week!
It has been a tumultuous week marked by a series of concerning cyberattacks. Firstly, the financial advisory firm Kroll, a financial advisory firm, has recently experienced a data breach. The firm is handling bankruptcy proceedings for DeFi companies FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis Global Holdco. Kroll said that on August 19, bad actors targeted a T-Mobile…
Read MoreTESLA Data Brech – Information leaked by Insiders – 75,000 Customers Impacted
Tesla has admitted that it had a data breach in May 2023 that was caused by malicious insiders. Allegedly, two or more Tesla employees stole data including customer data from Tesla and leaked it. The German news outlet Handelsblatt obtained the data and published an analysis of it, which is how Tesla found out about…
Read MoreNotice from InfoSec
On January 5, 2022, a new attack campaign was reported that leverages the legitimate Atera RMM software to gain initial access to target machines. An infection begins with installing Atera software on a target machine. Atera is legitimate enterprise RMM software that can install an agent and assign the endpoint to a particular account with…
Read MoreFar worse than reported.
Lack of proof of compromise, is not the lack of compromise. The assumption should be that any system hit was entirely compromised. Assumptions are what allowed this to occur. By now you have all heard about the cyber attack that used SolarWinds Orion to exploit and compromise many businesses. Well, it is far more reaching…
Read MoreCybercriminals Are Counting On You!
The world is slowing down during this COVID-19 pandemic. Wall Street is being hit hard. People are no longer going out. We’re told to quarantine or self-isolate and not engage in groups. You can bet there’s one group that’s not slowing down at all. In fact, they’re probably working overtime while the rest of us…
Read MoreWhy Cyber-security is Important
John Ford, ConnectWise Chief Information Security Officer, put together a quick little video to explain what a Cyber Attack is and how it impacts your business. Your work life and personal life are not separate. Everyone checks their work email on their phone. Everyone looks at Facebook at work or check their personal email at…
Read MoreMost common forms of cyberattacks last year
New research from BlackBerry Limited shows hackers use different strategies and attack types, depending on the industry they’re targeting. For example, criminals targeting the technology and software industry are most concerned with stealing intellectual property. To that end, a quarter of attacks (26 percent) were ransom based. Healthcare organizations also encountered a high proportion of…
Read More62% of Cyber Attacks are on small businesses.
Call us for your Security Assessment Today! There are so many companies that I have run across that feels that it will not happen to them – Until It Does… He is a sample of the cost to your business and reputation. Many companies never fully recover. Customers don’t return because of the lack of…
Read MoreHow fast can your computer get Infected?
I performed a test on an old laptop with a fresh build of Windows 7. No Anti-Virus – No Firewall – No Patches… I took this poor innocent laptop and plugged it directly into the internet, bypassing my firewall. 32 Seconds! I was a little amazed, surprised and frightened. After 32 seconds, the CPU went…
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